In Hurricane Sandy's aftermath, recovery from the world's largest IT outage

Business Continuity experts get ready.As communities in the Northeast US recover from devastating personal losses, people will begin to recover their businesses.We may experience the largest IT recovery effort in history.

Business losses from Hurricane Sandy will be enormous. Besides property loss, there is apt to be significant loss of information.There have never been so many information-driven organizations impacted by a single event.Power grid outages in India last summer impacted ten times more people, over 600 million, but far less of the world's business information.

Many organizations relocated their data ahead of Hurricane Sandy, but others weren’t as lucky.Systems may need to be replaced and data recovered from backup vaults.The extent of data loss could take weeks to assess,

If you have all your data today or, better yet, didn't experience an IT outage, hug your IT team.Keeping your information safe and available has never been more challenging.

To the IT heroes who recover our data after disasters, we salute you.If you’re working on Hurricane Sandy recovery, snap a few photos or capture some video, as a reminder of why we have backup systems.Please share your favorites here.